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Download full textLiaghatdar, Muhammad J.; Soltani, Asghar; Abedi, Ahmad – International Education Studies, 2011
The purpose of this study is providing a scale for measuring attitudes toward science among Persian secondary school students. A total of 300 (150 girls and 150 boys) of second grade students from all disciplines including science and mathematics in secondary education, participated in the study. Research instrument was, translated Persian version…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Student Attitudes, Attitude Measures
Direct linkNoroozi, Azita; Ghofranipour, Fazlollah; Heydarnia, Ali Reza; Nabipour, Iraj; Tahmasebi, Rahim; Tavafian, Sedighe Sadat – Health Education Journal, 2011
Purpose: The exercise self-efficacy scale (ESES) is largely used among diabetic patients to enhance exercise behaviour. However, the Iranian version of ESES was not available. The aim of this study was to validate ESES in this country. Method: Data were collected from 348 women who referred to a diabetes institute in Iran through convenience…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Diabetes, Construct Validity, Validity
Izadinia, Mahsa – English Language Teaching, 2011
Although critical pedagogy has defined new roles for teachers through which they can step beyond classroom concerns, there seems to be little attention to these roles in the conceptualization and measures of teacher efficacy. This study was an attempt to review the available literature and measures of teacher efficacy to find out whether the…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Teaching Methods, Construct Validity, Teacher Effectiveness
Salehi, Mohammad – English Language Teaching, 2011
To investigate the construct validly of a section of a high stakes test, an exploratory factor analysis using principal components analysis was employed. The rotation used was varimax with the suppression level of 0.30. Eleven factors were extracted out of 35 reading comprehension items. The fact that these factors emerged speak to the construct…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests, Factor Structure
Pishghadam, Reza; Noghani, Mohsen; Zabihi, Reza – English Language Teaching, 2011
The present study was conducted to construct and validate a questionnaire of social and cultural capital in the foreign language context of Iran. To this end, a questionnaire was designed by picking up the most frequently-used indicators of social and cultural capital. The Factorability of the intercorrelation matrix was measured by two tests:…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Questionnaires, Cultural Capital, Social Capital
Kharkhurin, Anatoliy V. – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2009
This study continues the effort to investigate the possible influence of bilingualism on an individual's creative potential. The performances of Farsi-English bilinguals living in the UAE and Farsi monolinguals living in Iran were compared on the Culture Fair Intelligence Test battery and two creativity tests: divergent thinking test (the…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Creative Thinking, Imagination, Indo European Languages
Peer reviewedSalehi, Mohammad; Rezaee, Abbas Ali – Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2009
The study was conducted with 3,385 participants who took an English language proficiency test as a partial requirement for entering a PhD program in different fields of education. This test has three sections which are grammar, vocabulary and reading comprehension. To determine the construct validity of the test, a series of analyses were done.…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Test Items, Construct Validity, Foreign Countries
